Evening Star Newspaper, October 19, 1923, Page 5

— ENGRAVING BUREAU - CHIEF VINDICATED Union Secretary, However, Insists Treasury Offici'al Restudy Charges. Simultaneously with a statement to- @ay by Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Winston that there was in- sufficient evidence against John F. Hardie, superintendent of the printing division of the bureau of engraving and printing, to warrant his discharge, but that a conference with represen- tatives of the Plate Printers’ Union or others would be acgorded, Frank J. Coleman, secretary of the union, issued a statement in which he con- tended Maj. ‘Winston should person- ally Interview the committee of five from the bureau which investigated charges of “favoritism and intimida- tion,” Maj. Winston explained that he had carefully gone over all of the reports to him and was convinced t Hardie was a “capable” off that dismissals at the bureau been made fairly. The union officials however, cited several reasons why they believed Maj. Winston should | personal e the investigators. Mr. Coleman also charged that Maj. Win- ston_evidently had not been made ac- quainted with the reports avaliable to the union and that he should listen to a further explanation of them. Mr. Coleman listed the following reasons in a statement tod: “First. The union has p formation that interviews with the vast majority of 500 plate printers in the printing division revealed to the investigating bgdy absolute evi-f dence that intimidation had been practiced in order to whip the'men into higher production records ¥ “Second. The union Dbelieves it only right and just that the findings| of the committee be made public f the benefit of any one falsely ac or for the corroboration of st ments of those who made ch: If the charges were found tru unfon wants the details. If the public should be told. Says All Facts Not Given. “Third: From the voluminous amount of statements filed by mem- bers of the union with officials of the union to the effect that special bene- fits have been conferred upon some employes of the printing division, while Prussianized discrimination { was being practiced to the injury of the personal American rights of oth- ers, the union is of the opinion that either the investigating committee did not ascertain all of the facts and submit them to Mr. Hill or that Mr. Hill did not submit them to Mr. Win- ston, or t all of the facts have not been taken into consideration by those officials to whom they were submitted “The union knows the condition of the morale in the printing division Members have complained many times of the nervous strain placed upon them by the continual goading extraordinary production and health-wrecking ac y, and feels that the large number of complaints couched in such similar terms abso- lutely could not be made without foundation in fact. tive in- false, i | Berlin hesitated and finally BERLIN PLANS TO OUST HEAD OF SAXONY ARMY TO END NATIONAL RIFT {Continued from First Page.) economic region to suffer incalcu- lable damage, then the moment will not be far distant when Germany will be compelled to renounce all her reparation obligations. RUHR AID CUT OFF. BY HIRAM K. MODERWELL. By Cable to The Star and Chi Copyright, 1t BERLIN, October 19.—The Strese- mann cabinet has taken a_desperate step, completely cutting off financial aid to the Ruhr, direct or indirect, beginning today. This step was made absolutely nec- essary by the financial condition of the reich, which, without drastic cconomies, cannot hope to maintain the stability of the new currency. It involves peril for the Ruhr, where unemployment and hunger are rag- ing, but Chancellor Stresemann will plain to the world that he cannot otherw. Production and traffic in the Ruhr are completely disorganized, and re- sponsibility henceforth will rest en- tirely on the shoulders of the French if the Ruhr Stresemann also will soon a quarter of all state officials th temporary pen- These will be thrown on. the market, already depressed by srowing unemployment. Unless & s permitted speed- their outlook is des- Zeigner's speech in the Saxon landtag Thursday, directly ac- cusing the Berlin government of or- ganizing the “black reichswehr” in ance of the treaty of Versallles, evoked a remarkable reply from Deputy Kaiser of the people’s party, ‘»:'lm regretted that “the first signs of tra sa ational reawakening should be be- d to the enemy on the anniver- © of the battle of Leipzig.” Thus the first chapter of the reve- lations concerning the black reichs- wehr is now a closed fact, established and admitted. Only the intentions of the nationalist irregulars remain un- certain Premier Zeigner contented himself with bluntly stating the facts, but ing the most f the,evidence which he is n to possess and which compro. leading personages in the Ber. vernment ed by this reserve of material, the knowled that the whole German working_class would on general strik if the Berlin pvernment arrested him, he for the first time brought into the light cf publicity the rottenness of the Ger- man republican arm His dar brought him a par- tial victory for his friends say that Gen. Mueller's daily provoca- tive actions against Premier Zeigner were motivated by hatred of him be- cause of his relentless activity a, ns the r in the republican army and 1 > desfre to prevent at ail velation which Zeigner gner accepted sller hesitated asked Berlin alr the challe to make and for sent cau- leulated to delay it is feared the will not accept defeat willingly, and force the Berlin govern- tious inst violent a ment’s hand. RELATIONS SEVERED. By the Associated Press, BERLIN, ober 19. — Diplomatic relations between Bavaria and Saxony & g . | tremendous tumult in the Saxon diet sensational | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., have been severed. Saxony yesterday dismissed its charge d'affaires to Bavaria and an- nounced the appointment of a new minister, whereupon = the Bavarian government replied declining to re- celve the new -minister as long s the communist party was represented in the Saxon ministry. At the same time it recalled the Bavarian min- ister from Dresden. SAXON DIET IN TUMULT. Premier Called Traitor for Charge Against Berlin Chiefs. By the Assoclated Press. DRESDEN, October 19.—There was vesterday, following a charge of trea- son by a natiomalist member against Premier Zelgner, who had alleged the existence of immense illegal armed forces in Germany. The diet was de- bating a communist demand for the resignation of Dr. Otto Gessler, the reich minister of defense, when Pre- mier Zelgner made the sensational statement that the reich had an il- legal army, although apparently with- out the knowledge of the reich gov-| ernment. The premier declared that at the end of September and at the| beginning pf October many illegal organizations in the neighborhood of Berlin would have attempted an up- rising, but were prevented from doing so by the Prussidn state police. In camps at Konigsbrueck and Neuse illegal organizations had been train- ing several weeks this summer, and hundreds of thousands of members of these bodies lately had been enrolled in the reichswehr and armed. There were about 1,500 in Leipzic alone. The entente, the premier declared, knew of these things and would put an end to them. Thereupon a member of the German people’s party replied that it would have been better “that today mever had dawned in Saxony's history, for today, the anniversary of the battle of nations at Leipzic, there was the first indication that reawakened Ger- many had been surrendered to the enemy. The speaker declared that Premlier Zeigner's procedure constituted open treachery, and he regretted the im- perial government as yet had been unable to find means to take action against those guilty of such treason. 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Judging from the sensational tum- ble in the value of the mark and from other circumstantial evidenc the negotiations between Hugo Stin. nes and the Franco-Belglan author ities have broken down, at least tem- porarily. The Germans are said to have flatly refused the allied demand for resumption of reparations in kind, and the French and Belglans are rey ported to have repulsed sharply the German demand for concessions on the coal taX. Even the proposal for a compromise on the basis of aboll- tion of the eight-hour day, which was discussed, evidently failed to produce results. Stinnes failed to get an interview with Gen. de Goutte, the French com- mander of occupation, Thursday, be- cause that dignitary felt offended at recelving no preliminary notification of his arrival. Stinnes conversed the whole time of his visit to French headquarters with subordinates, in- cluding technical representatives of Belgium. If the industrialists give up all hope of coming to terms with the French | —that is, if they decide to shut down their huge mines and factories indefi- nitely and paralyze the whole pro- ductive machinery of the Ruhr, The reason so many men prefer HE! SHOES, and have pre- ferred them for over 50 years, is due to the fact that they offer a combi- nation of foot-comfort and proper fitting with- out sacrificing style. You will like them yourself. 931 they are quite capable of doing—the results would be incalculable. It cer- tainly . would mean unemployment, riots, street fighting and a social up- heaval unparalleled to date. It might mean a bolshevist ravolution, or arm- ed attack on the Frénch troops. 1f the populage is driven to Gespair by hunger, only two remedles will be possible. One js the distributon of large ufemployment doles by the Berlin government, which has just an- nounced it's intention of economizing rigldly in this direction. The other is fratutious shipments of food by France and Belgium. Some critics argue that no men could be so inhuman as to bring about such social disruption with malice aforethought, but their objections fall to hold water. The industrialists claim that no business man can be expected to run his business at loss; that, aft- er all, the industrialists are only pri- vate citizens, and that consequently they are not responsible for the wel- fare of the Ruhr population. As pa- triotic citizens, they say, they are willing to make some sacrifices, but they will not sacrifice everythng. See Germany Broken. In all classes of society the writer Ras heard the following statement ately: 1 & imany 1s done for. She will inevitably be split up into her com- ponent parts. ~Everybody must seve hat he can for himself.” “It {s hopeless to negotiate further with the French,” a big industrialist of Duesseldorf told the writer today, ecause even now, after nine months at a very low price Silk and Wool HOSIERY For Men Three ' items 'of hosiery interest. Phoenix nationally known hosiery iz specially constructed to guarantee long wear and satisfaction. They are especially reinforced where the wear comes. Silk and wool, with fancy clock. $1.50 Black, Cordovan. Plain silk and wool and drop $1.00 stitch. Black, Cordovan, Brown mixture. All wool ribbed. Black, Brown $1.00 and Gray mixed. NATIONALLY = > # l I | 'RIDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1923. —_— = of occupation, they dp not appreciate the bigness of the Rubr'and do not understand _the complexity of its problems. Fundamentally, they are not a business race like us or you Americans, but a nation ot peasants and people ilving on small incomes. Cites Failure of Policy. “To show the extent of their lack of comprehension, one only has to look at events, Yesterday the French and Belgians together confiscated over a trilllon marks' worth of reichsbank notes. Today they con- fiscated big supplies of lumber. Both were urgently needed for resumption of work In the Ruhr. “The lumber could mot be carried away for weeks, but it was seized, nevertheless, on the ground that G many’s reparation deliveries were de- ficlent in that article. The timber seized was intended for use in the factories of the Duesseldorf region, which the French are particularly anxious to set going again to relieve the threatening unemployment crisis. It was a matter of cutting off the nose to spite the face. The same thing can be said of more than one | in Rhineland | recent French action and Westphalia.” BELGIAN PLAN OPPOSED. By the Associated Press. PARIS, October 19.—The German government has Set forth its views on the Belgian plan for'a M(tlemenll of the reparations question announced in the recent Belgian gray book. The opinion, according fo the Temps, will be sent soon to the reparation com- mission. It is said to be strongly critical of the monopolies proposed by Belgium, it being maintained that they would constitute a tax on consumption and throw the burden on the general population, instead of on the real| holders of the nation's wealth: and | it eliminates all the monopolies ex- {cept three—alcohol, sugar and salt— which, according to the estimate of | the Belgian experts, would bring in 800,000,000 gold marks. At the same time the Germans de- clare they cannot simultaneously cede monopolies and resume coal de- liveries, contending that they either must retain the proceeds from | monopolies to pay owners of coal, or, if the monopolies are ceded for reparations, they must be relieved, at | least for the time being, of ‘the | obligation of delivering coal. Finally, | the Germans will not agree to inter- | allied explo:mfio}» of the Gérnian railroads, but they say they will con- ®ent to pay rent for them gn:con- dition that the Rhenish Westphalian rallroads are returned to them. The question of participation by the allies in the profits of German industry in the proportion of 25 per cent is subject to a serles of tegbaical explanations, which are rather con- fused and full of reservations. But nevertheless the Germans accept par- ticipation in principle, subject to cer- tain conditions. 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